May 2007

Blue LED Flashlight Mod

If you want to hack a normal flashlight into a cool blue LED one have a look at this flashlight hack from Deadly Computer Blog. Looking for some LEDs for your next project? Check out these LEDs. “Now granted, my blue LED flashlight is a far cry in brightness compared to the original white one, but i don’t care, cause as i mentioned above, the fact that it’s blue makes

Read Embedded Flash Chips

If you are wanting to pull off the info of a NAND memory chip, this article is sure to enlighten! “NAND flash chips are used in all sorts of electronics for storing information/firmware etc. If you are interested in trying to get the information out to study, then I may have something useful for you. This is how I read the flash chip without removing it from the device.” Thanks

MAVERIK R/C Pilot

Maverik allows you to fly your model plane just like a real plane, no need to install lots of stuff that the original plane would not have. Maverik will fly the plane just as you would if you could shrink down to fit in your plane! “Imagine that You have already made a perfect scale plane, in any little detail: wings, fusolage, landing gear, engine … At the end of

Microcontroller to SMS Interface

In the microcontroller world some things are a bit tricky to do without some help. This can be some code libraries that help us talk to an LCD display, or communicate via some of the new serial protocols such as one wire. Elektronika.ba has done some work to help everyone out who wants to interface a microcontroller to a GSM phone. Thanks for making the English version for us. 🙂

Domino PCs

  What to do with all of those clunker PCs after they have been swapped out with new ones? Play dominoes of course! The next day you can still have more fun by playing hard drive dominoes.

Worm Music

  Looks like you can make music from anything including worms! One more worm tune after the jump. “Here we see an ensemble of worms creating sweet, sweet electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, despite the fact that they appear alarmed. They secrete albumen which is a sort of numbing thing (I think). Anyways, they were hastily removed and now live

Name the Thing Contest - 4

Congratulation to winners last week. There will also be two winners this week. Giveaway item 1 is a watch with a built in TV remote. Giveaway item 2 is a USB SD card reader. This contest will run for this weekend only (May 5 – 6, 2007) . To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give